The Lincoln Highway was the first highway to cross the United States. Created in 1913, it started in Times Square, and ended in Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California. Driving what used to be the Lincoln […]
In one week — from the last week of February to the first week of March, 2020 — the nation went from Coronavirus being a thing to ‘watch out for’ if you were in your […]
My second trip to China found me in Beijing, not nearly as scary and inspiring a city as Shanghai, which had me thinking I was visiting the Death Star in Star Wars – Beijing was […]
Bangkok is one of the jewels of rising Southeast Asia; a burgeoning major world city that already boasts over 8 million people with maybe 15 million estimated in the metropolitan area, if you count uncounted […]
I landed in Shanghai at 6pm at night, and took a bus from the airport to the center of the city — a one hour ride. The People’s Republic of China — a foreign place […]
Smallwood, New York is a summer community in the Catskills — THE Catskills — physically located in the southeastern part of the Catskill Mountains and with mountains not as big or steep as those by […]
By Paperbacklou I’ve been to San Antonio several times for work purposes. One thing that falls out of this is that people who work in an area give you great recommendations for local places to […]
The first thing you notice about Taiwan are the mountains. I never knew there would be mountains. As an American growing up in the 1970’s “Made in Taiwan” meant inexpensive products created under sweatshop working […]
The Days Inn by Wyndham Great Lakes in North Chicago is neither here nor there as a hotel — clean, small lobby that is not cozy, rooms are sparse; I had a room with a […]
I flew out to Seattle for a long-time, good friend’s wedding the weekend after 4th of July. The wife and kids stayed home due to schedules, so it was a solo trip. Credit card points […]
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